We caught up to the action to find Noah Boeken bet preflop and receive one caller in the big blind. After the dealer spread out a flop the big blind checked and Boeken bet again and received call.
With a on the turn both players opted to check. The river brought a repeat of action with both players checking again. Boeken was first to flip and showed which was apparently good enough as his opponent mucked.
A short stacked player raised from late position and it folded around to Max Pescatori in the big blind. Pescatori shrugged, said "Alright," and raised, moving the player all in. The hands were flipped over and Pescatori was dominated:
Pescatori:
Opponent:
Pescatori found gold on the flop though, when it came . His opponent failed to improve when the turn came and the river came . Pescatori was able to scoop a small pot and eliminate one from the field in the process.
After an early position raise from Mike Matusow and an all in from Jeffrey Lisandro, Matusow made the call and tabled . Unfortunately for Matusow, he was behind the of Lisandro.
The board spelled trouble for Lisandro when it fell . The turn and river were of no help as they came and Lisandro got up and walked to the rail.
"This guy complains about his bad beats for days and then does that," Lisandro said as he walked away from table.
After the official count, it seemed that Lisandro did not have Matusow covered, as he had 600 chips still behind.
"You still have six hundred!" yelled Matusow across the Amazon Room. "Come back, you still have chips!....AND you're on the button!"
Lisandro came back and pushed out his 100 ante, leaving him with 500 behind and the hopes for one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Unfortunately for Lisandro, he busted three hands later to another player at the table.
We didn't see how the betting went but during the NLHE round Liz Lieu ended up all in preflop holding the against her opponent's . The board ran out and Lieu doubled her stack up to 11,000.
We were unable to see Erica Schoenberg's hand, as she tossed it into the muck before we got to the table, but it seems she was crippled after an all in confrontation with an opponent. In front of her opponent was and the board read . This hand crippled Schoenberg, knocking her down to around 2,500.
Usually at the end of Day 1 of a tournament, players are given slips with a completely new seating assignment for the start of Day 2. For the players at Kevin Saul's table last night, they were all given assignments that would have them all at the same table again and in the same seating order. They were given the reasoning that their table would be the first to break today so it wouldn't matter if they had the same tablemates. Unfortunately as a result of some misunderstanding, their table is scheduled to be the third to break today, not the first, and they are not happy about it.
While everyone else today got a fresh start at a table full of new faces, the players at #294 are having deja-vu from yesterday and will continue to until we have enough eliminations that their table eventually gets broken.
Welcome back to Event #52: $2,500 Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit). 135 players remain of the 580 that entered the event. Our chip leader to start the day is Nikolay Losev who has 114,100 in chips. He was the only player to eclipse the 100,000 mark but is followed up in the counts by Joseph Cheong with 98,600.
There were tons of notable players who took to the felt yesterday who will not be returning today including Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, Antonio Esfandiari, David Williams, Hoyt Corkins, David Chiu, John Juanda and Daniel Negreanu.
Only 54 players will make the money so we still have awhile to go before we reach that mark. Stick with us here at PokerNews all day for your up-to-the-minute updates!
flop the big blind checked and Boeken bet again and received call.
on the turn both players opted to check. The 
river brought a repeat of action with both players checking again. Boeken was first to flip and showed 
which was apparently good enough as his opponent mucked.
and the river came 
. Pescatori was able to scoop a small pot and eliminate one from the field in the process.
of Lisandro.
. The turn and river were of no help as they came 
and Lisandro got up and walked to the rail.
. The board ran out 
and Lieu doubled her stack up to 11,000.
. This hand crippled Schoenberg, knocking her down to around 2,500.